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This episode is not the first time that the Cambridge Police has manifested a desire to "take those Harvard guys in hand". One of the most notable instances of this attitude was the case of an unfortunate Conant scholar in Leverett House last Fall, who was railroaded off to jail...
In a death-cell last week in Plötzensee Penitentiary in Berlin sat pale-faced, intellectual Helmuth Hirsch, the 21-year-old Jew who was arrested last December for plotting to kill with a bomb "a high German official" who newshawks quickly assumed was Dictator Hitler. Hirsch declared: "I...
Bootjack McDaniels, a lanky Negro with powerful shoulders, was asked to confess first. He gibbered that he was innocent. A mobster stepped forward with a plumber's blow torch, lighted it. Another ripped McDaniels' shirt off. Again he refused to confess. Then the blue-white flame of the...
Mr. Wiggin's current offer was made in connection with two other offers of $250,000 each from the estates of Charles Hayden and Lewis Cass Ledyard Jr., both of whom were Chase directors and defendants in the stockholders' action. The suit, said Mr. Wiggin, was hampering proper...
This suggested to most Moscowites that Yagoda may not have his confession-spouting day in court as a "Trotskyist," may simply be shot by the Ogpu. The Old Bolshevik who knows most about Soviet law is Eugene Bronislavovich Pashukanis, Vice-Commissar of Justice, Director of the Institute of Soviet Construction...